Can you do better with a high-quality, fixed-income investment?

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Weight your portfolio towards high-quality fixed-income securities and focus your Canadian stock list on banks, utilities, and leading telecoms such as BCE Inc. ( BCE), which just raised its dividend by 5%.

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You buy a series of quality fixed-income securities with staggered maturity dates.

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During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).

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That means that one side can be pushed in several millimeters with an audible creak, a build-quality issue that Gigabyte says has been fixed in the production-line models.

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Its plug-and-play function automatically configures itself to the surrounding radio environment, enabling users to quickly enjoy wider, higher-quality and more cost-effective coverage simply by connecting the femtocell to a broadband fixed line.

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He believes that worldwide structural changes (increased mobility of capital and labour, the greater credibility of central bankers as inflation-fighters, the preference of ageing baby-boomers for fixed-income securities) have altered the equation, and that top-quality bond yields are, if anything, headed down.

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As higher-yielding bonds mature, investors wanting to reinvest into fixed-income will have to choose between lower-yielding bonds or bonds with worse credit quality.

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